Political information read on news websites is more associated with higher trust, whereas social media sites are generally not trusted, suggests a new article written by Andrea Ceron of Università degli … Continued

A new special issue of the journal American Behavioral Scientist has been published. This issue, edited by Kjersti Thorbjørnsrud of University of Oslo, focuses of framing of immigrants and immigration in Western media. The … Continued

The fourth International Symposium on Media Innovations was held in Brussels last week. The event invited scholars and industry representatives to discuss how innovation matters in the media industry. We … Continued

  Crowdfunding has become a popular way to launch initiatives that would otherwise be hard to finance. During recent years different crowdfunding tools and platforms have shown significant success in … Continued

A new issue of British Journalism Review features an election special, focusing naturally on United Kingdom general election of 2015. The articles around this theme range from election spinning to the aid of … Continued

The twenty-first century has brought major challenges to local journalism. A new academic book from Reuters Institute for Journalism delves into the centre of these challenges, looking at its past, present … Continued

Journalism studies can be expanded by acknowledging Eastern philosophies in addition to Western ones, write Alessandro Martinisi and Jairo Lugo-Ocando of University of Leeds. Journalism’s self-image has been heavily influenced with the Enlightenment project: it … Continued

Nordicom Review 36:1 has just been published. The issue opens with editor Ulla Carlsson‘s introduction and parting words – Carlsson has been involved with the Review since its beginning in Spring … Continued

Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism is launching a new media research project. The project is aimed at analyzing the relationship between news media organizations and digital intermediaries (such … Continued

Last week we published stories about a new research project that aims to define what added value journalists brings to table, about the latest issue of Journal of Applied Journalism & … Continued

CICOM 2015 conference, titled Challenges for the Future of the Regional Television: Structure, Funding, Content and Audiences is looking for abstract submissions. The event will be held 12th and 13th  November 2015 … Continued

The Global Media Journal: Mediterranean Edition is calling for articles for two upcoming issues: Fall 2015 (10:2) and Spring 2016 (11:1). The journal wishes for articles exploring contemporary issues in media … Continued

When journalism and newspapers are seen as a learning environment, editorial policies and the duties of the reporter need to be re-evaluated, asserts Minna Hauhia of University of Tampere in her recent PhD … Continued

International Communication Association’s annual conference in Prague, Czech Republic. This is the fifth and final day of the five-day event.

Communication research will change in the future, concluded a panel discussion held in University of Helsinki, Finland. The discussion revolved around the recently ESF Forward Look -report on the same … Continued

Literature on media frames of political conflict is a fractured field, writes Nebojša Vladisavljević of University of Belgrade in her literature review paper. For example, there are only limited attempts to combine the … Continued

Is source protection dead, asks a new paper by Carl Fridh Kleberg who spent a month at LSE as the Polis Journalistfonden Fellow. Kleberg studied the potential threat to the privacy of … Continued

How do young people use news media, asks a newly published PhD dissertation by Anna Van Cauwenberge of KU Leuven. The dissertation looks especially at the interactive functions of different news platforms; how … Continued

A new issue of Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies has been published. The journal focuses on research that combines theory and practice, and so these four articles we picked for … Continued

A new research project aims to redefine professional journalism and its value in mass media landscape. Kimmo Mäkilä, Janne Zareff and Jarno Liski have launched several smaller projects that all focus around the … Continued

Last week we published stories about journalism studies section of UK elections report, about narratives in crime news stories and about new twist in the everlasting tale of gatekeeping theory. Events this … Continued

The Social and Institutional Communication Research Group of University of Girona is looking for submissions for their IV International Conference on Communication and Society. The conference, titled Education and Communication: Challenges … Continued

The Italian Association of Political Communication is looking for abstracts for their annual conference, held at the University of Salerno 10th to 12th December 2015. This year’s theme is Communication … Continued

Scholarly journal 3CMedia is calling for papers that are concerned with the theme of funding community media. Participatory community media is animated by collective and individual commitments to social action and self-representation. Historically … Continued

A new report, published just 10 days after the UK Elections 2015, gathers 73 articles from 92 leading UK academics. The research findings and short theoretical insights cover a rich range … Continued

Catalan Journal of Communication and Cultural Studies is looking for contributions for its special issue 8.1, published spring 2016. The theme of the special issue is The Spanish Civil War 80 … Continued

When compared to a non-narrative news report a journalistic narrative about a shocking news event causes readers to identify more strongly with eyewitnesses, write Kobie van Krieken, Hans Hoeken and José Sanders of … Continued

Technological and economic changes have called the classic theory of gatekeeping into question, says the recently released book Gatekeeping in Transition. The theory, first introduced in 1943, is changing, shifting … Continued

Italian Political Science Association is calling for papers for their XXIX annual conference held 10th to 12th September 2015. The event is organised by Società Italiana di Scienza Politica of University of … Continued

International symposium with the theme Journalism, Diaspora and Conflict Resolution is now calling for papers. The symposium, organised by Media of Diaspora Research Group (MDRG) of University of Lincoln, will be … Continued